Tripartite Alliance members told Zuma to ‘voetsek’, Twitter had all the jokes [multimedia]

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PRETORIA, SOUTH AFRICA – MARCH 17: President Jacob Zuma during the official launch of the Invest South Africa One Stop Shop (InvestSA OSS) at the DTI campus on March 17, 2017 in Pretoria, South Africa. The initiative is part of the government’s drive to improve the business environment by lowering the cost of doing business as well as making the process easier. (Photo by Gallo Images / Alet Pretorius)

May Day, or Worker’s Day as we celebrate it in Mzansi, is a day where we honour South Africa’s labour force which, traditionally, has formed the backbone of political action and change in SA.

To that effect, the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) — and other unions — once a year organises a rally where delegates address the masses. This year, for the first time since SA became a democracy, the unions weren’t all that keen to have the ANC president show face, but Zuma went anyway and, well… he was booed before he could even speak.

Now, the May Day celebrations might not have gone the way the ANC had wanted, but South Africans online couldn’t have been happier. Check out some of the videos from the day: